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Fitness, Friends & Fun…Welcome Back to Those Cool Autumn Breezes

  • September 2025
  • BY CYNDI MATTHEWS

With the scorching summer in the rear-view mirror, things are still hot and exciting at the Fitness, Racquet & Pool Club. Yep.

NEW INSTRUCTOR

First, let’s welcome our newest instructor, Kate Medina. After passing the comprehensive American Council on Exercise (ACE) Group Fitness Exam, she’s ready to go. The curriculum combines basic physiology, group fitness techniques, and the ACE proven behavior-change theory. Providing high level, professional fitness classes is our goal, and we are happy to have another Certified Group Fitness Instructor on our team.

ONLINE CLASSES

Speaking of fitness, we’ve found a way to provide our exercise classes with you wherever you are! By taking videos of our instructors leading, if your schedule or class is full, you can still enjoy our BSM fitness at home or away. We are learning to perfect this technique and welcome your feedback. Members, check your email for the links to our first classes.

IT’S LADIES’ NIGHT

Ready to have a little fun off the courts and outside of the fitness center? Want to make some friends? Well, mark the calendar for the first Wednesday of the month! We will be meeting at Cass Cay at 1:15 p.m. on September 3 (and the rest of the first Wednesdays of the month) and invite you to join us. Check out the sign-up sheet near the front of our fitness center, and we’ll see you there.

LAURIE SPEER

GET TO KNOW INSTRUCTOR LAURIE SPEER

Laurie’s smiling face, confidence, and high level of personal fitness are just what you’d expect from a long-time fitness professional. With 25 years of experience as a group exercise director, instructor, and personal trainer, she spent time as the Group Fitness Coordinator at Crunch Fitness. She also has certifications in Kettle Bell, TRX, Yoga, Barre, Pilates Mat and Reformer.

She relocated from New Jersey to our area 14 months ago along with Molly and Darla, her pit bulls. When she’s not in the gym, you’ll find her on the water or at the beach. She’s got two grown children, a daughter in Colorado and a police officer son in New Jersey.

Laurie is dedicated to healthy goals and says, “If you consider your fitness goals worthy then they are worthy of your full effort.”

Improvement Reminder – Watch your email for the exact dates that the parking lot will be closed.